The Shouting Case

New StatesmanJuly 27, 2009

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Wisecracks aside, [Lucy Ellmann] has interesting things to say about women and their bodies. The Mills and Boon setting is, it turns out, a sort of genteel cover for The Vagina Monologues: what Ellmann is really curious about is the FEMALE SEX ORGAN and all its implications. She's interested in [Jen]'s ambivalent relationship with hers and society's ambivalent relationship with Jen's and the weird and frequently not-so-great things that medicine has to say on the topic.

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The Shouting Case

fiction The shouting case Doctors and Nurses Lucy Ellmann Bloomsbury, 209pp, £12

The outrageously fat heroine of Lucy Ellmann's fifth novel likes to RANDOMLY CAPITALISE OCCASIONAL WORDS. Such attention-see...

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